"Everybody in America grew up without a father even if they had one. It was the fifties. They were working."

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Source : Mona Simpson (2011). “The Lost Father”, p.195, Vintage

Mona Simpson

#Father Quotes #America Quotes #Grew Quotes

“Magne Furuholmen is a very dear friend of mine. A-ha are a classic pop band and they've got some brilliant songs. I'd say 'The Living Daylights' was one of my favourite Bond tunes: regardless of it being a Bond song, it stands alone as a great piece of music.”
“I justified it in so many ways. I had a very, very long and difficult struggle with my sexuality.”
“Don't throw a monkey-wrench into the machinery.”

Source : Everybody's Magazine, p. 36, May 1920.
“Personally, I'm not interested in making device drivers look like user-level. They aren't, they shouldn't be, and microkernels are just stupid.”
“Here on Earth there was undoubtedly a Christ. One of the reasons he swept in so suddenly and he would go forward so hard is, he had a good assist in back of him in terms of an implant.”
“I can’t explain how it is I keep having new ideas. But one book inevitably follows another. It is my way of exploring the known, the remembered, and the imagined, the literary triad of which all stories are made.”
“The true state of the union lies in your heart, and in your home.”

Source : "Republican Response To State Of The Union: Read Cathy McMorris Rodgers’ Speech", www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2014.
“They should have focused more on me.”

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